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- Edition: Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Quarto)
- Introduction
- Texts of this edition
- Contextual materials
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- The Famous History of Friar Bacon
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- Inventions or Devices Very Necessary for all Generals and Captains or Leaders of Men
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- A Book of Magic, with Instructions for Invoking Spirits
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- A Geometrical Practice named Pantometria
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- Autobiographical Tracts of Dr. John Dee
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- The Vanity of the Eye
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- The Comical History of Alphonsus King of Aragon
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The honourable histori of Frier Bacon.
2095That gloried Ida with rich beauties wealth.
2096Margret. Tis I my lords who humbly on my knee,
2099Brought from her homely cottage to the court,
2100And graste with Kings Princes and Emperours,
2101To whom (next to the noble Lincolne Earle)
2102I vowe obedience, and such humble loue,
2103As may a handmaid to such mightie men.
2104Ellinour. Thou martiall man that wears the Almaine crowne,
2105And you the westerne Potentates of might,
2108Faire Margret, Countesse to the Lincolne Earle,
2109Attendes on Ellinour, gramercies Lord for her,
2110Tis I giue thanks for Margret to you all,
2113Lets martch in triumph to the royall feast,
2115Bacon. Repentant for the follies of my youth,
2117And ioyfull that this roiall marriage,
2120Or what shall grow from Edward and his Queene.
2122Which once I tempred in my secreat cell,
2123That here where Brute did build his Troynouant,
2124From forth the royall garden of a King,
2127And ouer-shadow Albion with her leaues.
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